death of an autistic child , child abuse probably, im on mobile pretend there’s a readmore here

an 11 y/o autistic kid escaped from a “care” facility and got hit by a train and it’s all over the news and i read the comments and some of them are straight up victim blaming the kid for escaping, and those people are fighting w people whose stance is that there should have been more guards, more people on shift, basically a more dehumanising situation overall. only 2 or 3 people i saw said the fucking obvious like, It’s Not A Fucking Prison. children don’t feel the need to escape if they’re not being abused, if they’re fucking safe.

but also like, i don’t know anything about this kids disability or development or anything and i can’t be authoritative on whether or not they could understood rail crossings and rail safety. but kids don’t want to die. they don’t come up with that idea on their own. it’s also… questionable that a kid could independantly figure out how to escape a facility run by adults, and just happened, to die because they couldn’t piece together that incoming trains are deadly. like, disability is complicated and i fully get that some things can seem simple but be difficult to grasp and others seem difficult and just make more sense to some people. but also I don’t think i can trust mainstream reporting to piece together something that makes ableism Look Bad